Review – Gods and Ends (Ordinary Magic, Book 3) by Devon Monk (3/5 stars)

Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: 308 pages
Publisher: Odd House Press
Release Date: May 14, 2017
ASIN: B071NZCNNP
Stand Alone or Series: 3rd book in the Ordinary Magic series
Source: Bought for Kindle
Rating: 3/5 stars

“Police Chief Delaney Reed thinks she knows all of Ordinary, Oregon’s secrets. Gods on vacation, lovelorn ghosts, friendly neighborhood monsters? Check.

But some secrets run deeper than even she knows. To take down an ancient vampire hell-bent on revenge, she will have to make the hardest decision of her life: give up the book of dark magic that can destroy them all, or surrender her mortal soul.

As she weighs her options, Delaney discovers she can no longer tell the difference between allies keeping secrets and enemies telling the truth. Questioning loyalties and running out of time, Delaney must choose sides before a kidnapping turns into murder, before rival crochet and knit gangs start a war, and before the full moon rises to signal the beginning of Ordinary’s end.”

This is the third and final book in the Ordinary Magic series. Although there have been rumors that Monk might write some more books or stories set in Ordinary in the future. This was a somewhat disappointing book for me. It seemed like it was just wrapped up the previously started storylines, kind of more of a laying out of events than anything all that intriguing.

In this book Delaney is desperately look for a way to retrieve the vampire Ben from the evil Lavius. She ends up finding help in the form of a demon.

This book ties up things decently and pulls in a lot of story threads from the first two books. I just thought it was pretty boring and just laid events out in the expected order rather than wove a thrilling story. There were also long section dealing with the feuding knitting teams which I thought was over the top ridiculous. I know this was supposed to be funny, but I think it came off as overly silly instead.

Overall this was a somewhat disappointing ending to this urban fantasy series. Things are tied up, but they are also very predictable and fairly boring. I loved the idea of the town of Ordinary presented in the first book in this series but thought things went downhill from there as the series continued.

This book goes towards the following reading challenges:
– Goodreads Reading Challenge